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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu: I. The Horror in Clay.

Summary

The Cthulhu Mythos, known to Howard Phillips Lovecraft as Yog-Sothothery, encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. Together, they form the canon that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used — and continue to use — to craft their stories. The term "Cthulhu Mythos" comes from August Derleth. Though this legendarium is sometimes called the Lovecraft Mythos, most notably by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, it's long since moved beyond Lovecraft's original conception.

The Mythos' central theme is that the human world and humanity's role are illusions; humans exist inside a fragile bubble of perspective, oblivious of what lies beyond the curtains, not even knowing the curtains exist. Humanity's seeming dominion over the world is illusory and ephemeral; humans are fortunate in that we are unaware of what lurks in the dark corners of the Earth and beyond. As Lovecraft famously began his short story, The Call of Cthulhu, "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

Note: This wiki only considers the works H. P. Lovecraft and his close friends wrote during his life as canonical despite the Cthulhu Mythos now being public domain. Profiles here primarily use Lovecraft's primary writings, with occasional contributions to the Mythos from close friends like Frank Belknap Long and Clark Ashton Smith, and consider the expanded Mythos as non-canonical fan works.

Power of the Verse

As the pioneer of the "cosmic horror" genre, the Cthulhu Mythos is an enormously powerful verse reputed as one of the strongest settings in fiction despite being much older than most prominent verses.

At the bottom of the Mythos's power levels, some more grounded characters and small-scale horrors are human or comparable to humans; a few higher ones are Tier 8 and Tier 7. Great Old Ones, some of the more well-known eldrich horrors, are High 6-B from scaling to Cthulhu causing an earthquake as he slumbers in R'lyeh. Speed-wise, some of these beings are comparable to or slightly faster than humans; others vary from Supersonic with the Wolf-Like Mountains' size, High Hypersonic+ with the Nightgaunts accelerating to a planet's orbiting speed, and Massively FTL+ with the Colour Out of Space flying from the solar system in seconds; the Hounds of Tindalos reach Immeasurable speeds for moving through time. These beings have impressive hax, many holding sway over eldrich magic, exotic biology, psychic powers, space, time, dimensionality, immortality, causality, and other high-end powers.

In the Mythos's higher echelons, it receives a massive power spike with the transcendent realms and deities beyond the infinite multiverse of infinite-dimensional universes. Such beings include the Ancient Ones and Hypnos, who are 1-A from scaling to the trans-dimensional Outer Extension and Dreamlands, respectively, and the Outer Gods, a host of High 1-A entities residing in the nigh-all-encompassing Ultimate Void, among which are the Ultimate Gods, such as Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath. The most powerful beings in the setting are Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth, the Tier 0 twin halves of the godly Supreme Archetype, the animating essence of all existence that subsumes even the Ultimate Mystery, a final secret belying all other transcendent realms and beings equally. These transcendent beings' haxes are as esoteric as their level of existence, including such powers as trans-dimensionality, acausality, abstract nonexistence, transduality, omnipresence, omniscience, and more.

Explanations

Calculations

Supporters/Opponents/Neutral

Supporters

Opponents

Neutral

Characters

Ultimate Gods

Ultimate Gods
Azathoth (Cthulhu Mythos) Yog-Sothoth (Cthulhu Mythos) Nyarlathotep (Cthulhu Mythos)
The Blind

Idiot God

The All-in-One and

One-In-All

The Crawling Chaos
Azathoth Yog-Sothoth Nyarlathotep
Shub-Niggurath The Ultimate Gods
The Black Goat with

a Thousand Young

The Archetypes
Shub-Niggurath The Ultimate Gods

Great Old Ones

Great Old Ones
Cthulhu (Cthulhu Mythos) Dagon (Cthulhu Mythos) Atlach-Nacha Ghatanothoa
The Sleeper of

R'lyeh

The Father of

The Deep Ones

The Spider God The Dark God
Cthulhu Dagon Atlach-Nacha Ghatanothoa
Tsathoggua Yig
The Sleeper of

N'kai

The Father of

Serpents

Tsathoggua Yig

Ascendant Beings

Ascendant Beings
Nodens Hypnos (Cthulhu Mythos) Randolph Carter
Lord of The

Great Abyss

Lord of Sleep The Dreamer
Nodens Hypnos Randolph Carter

Cosmic Entities

Cosmic Entities
The Colour Out of Space Cthulhi Deep Ones Dimensional Shamblers
The Cosmic

Virus

The Star Spawn

of Cthulhu

The Children

of Dagon

The Hunters

From Beyond

Colour Out of Space Cthulhi Deep Ones The Shamblers
Elder Things Flying Polyp Great Race of Yith Hounds of Tindalos
The Old Ones The Floating Ones The Projectors Extradimensional

Predators

Elder Things Flying Polyp Great Race of Yith Hounds of Tindalos
Wolf-Like Mountains Hunting Horrors Mi-go Nightgaunts
The Silent

Giants

Servants of

Nyarlathotep

The Fungi

From Yuggoth

The Faceless

Dreams

Wolf-Like Mountains Hunting Horrrors Mi-go Nightgaunts
Shoggoth The Dunwich Horror
The Formless

Amoeba

Son of

Yog-Sothoth

Shoggoth The Dunwich Horror

Discussions

Discussion threads involving Cthulhu Mythos

General Discussion

General discussion thread for this verse
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